OREGON HISTORICAL PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND. ORE. SOS I ETY $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 12, 1950 Volume 67, Number 30 pptter JoAnne Wilson's Fleece Captures P. I. Purple Award Other County 4-H Exhibitors Place .. At Portland Show . Morrow county's 4-H clubbers showed the result of their train ing and practice when they ex hibited at the Pacific Interna tional Livestock exposition in Portland last week-end. One of them, JoAnne Wilson of Heppner, took the first championship pur pie award given in the 4-H club division Saturday as judging got under way at the 40th exposition for her three-eights blood fleece in the wool show sponsored by the Pacific Wool Growers. Competition was keen, accord ing to Bruce Arnold, superinten. dent, who reported that 101 flee ces were entered and quality of the exhibits was the best on re (ford. Herbert Bentley of the Port land Woolen Mills did the judg ing. Miss Wilson also took first place blue award for her fine wool fleece exhibit and received a cash award sponsored by the Wool Growers auxiliary. She placed second in the one-half blood wool exhibit, Mh ,-nh g JTI, K,r- Pla,ced xth in the one-half blood class-ft sixth and seventh in the three-eighths class. Miss Wilson was a guest of the Heppner chamber of com merce at the Monday luncheon, where she was introduced by Nel son Anderson who gave a brief resume of her activities since be. coming a 4-H club member. o lone's Cardinals In Second Position After Friday's Game lone Cardinals under the guid ing hands of Coach Russ DeBondt thumped Stanfield a resounding 19 to 6 in league play Friday. This sets lone up with one win, one draw and one loss. A win ov er Weston next Friday will set lone in second place following the Pilot Rock powerhouse. Ione's first touchdown came late in the first quarter after sol id gains made by the backfield team of Eubanks, Baker and Pal mer. From the three yard line, Duane Baker took a handoff from Eubanks and flashed around left end for the first goaL Doherty's attempted kick failed. Freshman Lee Palmer ran the second touchdown early in the second quarter. Doherty ran the additional point making the score 13 to 0. With only a few minutes re maining in the 3rd quarter Herb Peterson recovered a Stanfield punt on the 22 yard line. Halftime entertainment was provided by the majorettes under the leadership of Joan Reininger. o County PMA Vote On Committeemen . Coming Up Soon With the annual election of Production and Marketing ad ministration. community commit teemen coming up in the next few weeks, L. L. Howton, chair man of the Morrow county PMA committee urges all eligible far mers to get their sights set on the besl possible farmer candidates, Date of election and polling pla ces will be announced later. The communities for which committeemen will be elected and present committeemen are: Lexington, Donad Campbell, chairman; Millard Nolan, Ken neth Peck; Morgan, Cecil Thome, Roy Lindstrom, Arthur Crawford; Eightmile, Raymond Lundell, Frank Anderson, C. A. Warren North Heppner, Sam Turner, Ray mond Ferguson, Dee Cox Jr. J S. Heppner, W. W. Weatherford, A, C. Bechdolt, Harold Evans; lone, Donald Heliker, Milton Morgan E. M. Baker; Boardman, Charles Dillon, Ralph Skoubo, Hugh Brown; Alpine, A. C. Lindsay, Randal Martin, W. J. Doherty; Ir rlgon, Paul Slaughter, R. M. Mp. Coy, M. J. Smith. o REPORT ON CLUB CONFERENCE Mrs.John Saager, Mrs. W. O. George and Mrs. O. G. Crawford reported on the 31st conference of the Soroptimist clubs of the Northwest Region held in Great Falls Montana, October 6-8. The ladies were delegates from the Soroptimist club of Heppner and brought home clear, complete re ports on the work transacted in the conference. Mrs. Lena Kelley and Mrs. Rich ard Knight, teachers in the Hep pner school were guests of the club at the luncheon meeting this noon. o Walter Luckman was released from the Pioneer Memorial hos pital the first of the week, hav ing recovered from surgical treat ment. He left Wednesday for Portland to spend about 10 days, Basic School Support Fund Reduces County Levy by 6.2 Mills in 1950-51 Distribution of the basic school support fund is underway this week, according to announce ment from the office of Henry Tetz, county school administrator. This is the first half of the 1950- 1951 allotment and totals $37, 202.22. This fund comes from the state out of incom etax collec tions and is used to offset pro perty taxes in each district. Tetz points out that the total milleage for the county for the year 1950-51 is 26.5 mills. It would have been 32.7 mills with out the basic school fund from the state. The fund is distributed to the districts on the basis of $500 per teacher, 20 cents per days mem bership by every pupil, and two cents per pupil mile for every youngster transported. Mustangs Cross Goal Line 3 limes To Win Prairie Bout The Heppner high school grid squad looked rn,uch better in tackling but was still weak in blocking, especially in the center of the line in the meeting with Prairie City here Friday after- Sumner,, scored twice on - line nH riht nH rn, ic Jack bucks and right end, Connor, is credited with the other tally. The Panthers were much larger than the locals but the Heppner line out-charged them all afternoon. The locals received a good shot in the arm" from the cheer ing section and in return played heads up football. The next home game is sched uled for October 20, when the Heppner Mustangs tangle with the Fossil Falcons. This game draws added interest as the Fos sil coach, Al Daniels, is an ex- classmate of Coach Whitbcck at Pacific university. o Final Rites Held For Mrs. Ida Mae Dutton Final rites were held in Hep pner Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Ida Mae Dutton, 90, who passed away Wednesday, October 4, in Portland. Services were held at the All Saints Episcopal church, with Rev. Elvon L. Tull officiat ing, and interment was in the Heppner Masonic .cemetery be.- side the grave of her husband, the late W. P. Dutton. Mrs. Dutton was born March 29, 1860, in Andover, N. Y. and came to Oregon with her parents In lsiA the family settling in Heppner. Here she married Will, iam P. Dutton in 1883. They lived for many years on the Wightman ranch, selling the property to the Wightman brothers and moving to Heppner , where they remained until 1913 when they moved to Portland. Mr. Dutton died in 1924. Surviving are a number of nieces and nephews: Blaine Hallock, Baker; Joseph Hallock, Seattle; Earl Hallock, Redmond; Mrs. Ahlma Macdonald, Tacoma, and Sidney Hallock, William H. Dut ton, Mrs. Margaret Warner and Mrs. Florence Welch, all of Port land. o BOARDMAN TAKES SPRAY TO TUNE OF 20 TO 8 Boardman's 6-man football team defeated Spray 20-8 Friday with Palmer, Rogers and Rash scoring touchdowns for the winners and Pulley reaching pay dirt for the losers. Shattuck, of Boardman and Ivey, Spray kicked the extra point. Spray failed to break into the point column until the last per iod, when the score was 8 to 6 in the visitors' favor. Rash of Board man made the longest run of the game 70 yards for a touchdown. o Magazine Sales Not Sponsored by V. A. Charles M. Cox, Pendleton rep. resentative of the Veterans Ad ministration said today he has received reports that a group of magazine solicitors operating in Washington and Oregon are falsely representing themselves as Veterans Administration em ployees. The Veterans Administration does not solicit magazine sub scriptions, nor does it sponsor magazine subscription drives by any other organization, Cox said. Cox also said that veterans benefits are administered by the Veterans Administration without charge, and that it is not neces sary for a Veteran to pay for outside information or assistance when seeking aid from the Vet erans Administration. Mrs. Ethel AdanTS and daugh ter Nancy drove to Spokane Sat urday to meet Mrs. John Roscoe and baby of Post Falls, Ida., who have come to visit two weeks. Mrs. Roscoe is the former Clara Belle Adams. Mrs. Norman Florence went to Portland Tuesday to enter the St. Vincent's hospital for examina tion and observation. During the four years that the basic school fund law has been in effect Morrow county has re ceived a total of $322,000 which has been used to offset the pro perty tax that would have been raised in the county. The 16 units receiving the funds, the total amount and the apportionments for September 15, 1950 are as follows :1CJ $24,086. 63, $12,043.31; 2698.98,-347.49; 3C 1,557.68, 778.84; 5J 482.23. 241.11; 1010,8.34.42, 5,417.21; 12C 6,331.06, 3,165.53; 19562.60, 281.30; 23C 1,423.52, 711.76; 24 414.83, 207.41; 259,817.33, 4,908 66; 35CJ 13,569.00, 6,784.50; 40C 1,125.39 562.69; 41C 746.72, 373.36; 42695.74, 347.87; UH1 296.25, 148.12; Non-high 1,757.99, 878.99. Totals, $74,400.37, $37,200.-15. A SLIGHT ERROR As almost everyone knew when they saw the picture of the boy and his hog which the G-T dub bed "Blueboy", it was Johnny Brosnan and not Jerry Brosnan. We learned this shortly after the paper got into circulation when Johnny came in to buy some copies. It is sometimes difficult to recall names correctly towards the end of an 18-hour shift. o Kinzua-Camp Five Highway Scheduled For Use in 1951 Completion of the - Kinzua- Camp Five highway is scheduled for 1951, Judge Garnet Barratt re. ported Wednesday, following a visit to Kinzua in company with George Wadill, superintendent of the Pioneer Memorial hospital. The 11-mile stretch of standard highway is being built to replace the logging railroad which has served to transport logs from the camp high up on the mountain down to the mill site at Kinzua. It is of the same type of perma nent construction as the 14 miles of highway built from the Hepp- ner-Spray highway to Camp Five about nine years ago and repre sents an expenditure of $250,000. The Heppner men paid the vis. it to the Kinzua officials on bus iness relative to the hospital and were impressed with the favor able reception accorded them. o CHURCH OF CHRIST BILLS HOMECOMING FOR SUNDAY Rev. Milton Bower of Burns, former pastor herei will fill the pulpit at the morning service as part of the Homecoming Sunday being held at the Church of Christ. There will be a potluck dinner at noon for members and friends. Other former pastors, and their families planning to be here are Rev. John Runyan, Toppenish.; Rev. Glenn Warner, Spokane, and Rev. Wendell Herbison, Redmond, all of whom served the local church within the last seven years. OUR DEMOCRACY- Sati U hz eroun ion is iUc SSucaiiou The same basic IDEA THAT DIOGENES put into words, more THAN ZOOO YEARS AGO, WAS THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PIONEERS WHO ESTABLISHED OUR. SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. r-. .... . i-nrnnirilOTTin 11 ! i l -AND TODAY, WHILE ALL CITIZENS COOPERATIVELY SUPPORT OUR. SCHOOLS THR.OUGH TAXES, THE HIGHER. EDUCATION OF OUR YOUTH 13 FURTHERED BY THRIFTY PARENTS WHOPROVIOE EDUCATIONAL FUNDS FOR THEIR. CHILDREN, THROUGH LIFE INSURANCE AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS -AN EVER-BROADENING FOUNDATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR DEMOCRACY. Fair-Rodeo Over Long Since But Not Work of Secretary While the 1950 Morrow county fair and rodeo is long past and forgotten by many, the after ef fects are still evident at the coun ty agent's office. Premium checks are being pre pared and issued as fast as pos sible, yet with extreme care that no exhibitor is overlooked. 4-H premium checks were mailed the past week and open class prem ium checks are to go out as soon as money becomes available for issuing the checks. Some response to the plight in which the fair board finds itself has been made with several exhi bitors having turned their prem ium money back to the treasury. Contributing the past week were Mrs. Harold Erwin, 1-rank Ander son, Floyd Worden, Ronald Ba ker, Harold Becket, Harold Er win, and Herbert Hynd. Most of these checks were for sizable amounts. o i Heppner-Umatilla Fracas Menli For Friday Afternoon After showing improvement over the Echo game by defeating Prairie City, the Heppner Mus tangs will try their talent on the Vikings of Umatilla. Although three of Heppner's backs are injured quite badly, the rest of the squad is in good shape. Melvin Piper has a bruis ed leg and is troubled by the flu; Lyle Peck is troubled with a bad. ly bruised calf muscle anu Jack Sumner's sprained ankle makes him a doubtful starter and it is possible that he won't "suit up" for this important game. The quality of Umatilla is un known, so an interesting game is on deck. Coach Hal Whitbeck takes an optimistic outlook on the games outcome and has impressed on the team the possibilities of Um atilla's attack and warns that any team operating from the "T" formation is dangerous. o Grange Farm Policy To Be Discussed Grange farm policy will be the topic for discussion in an open session preceding the regular meeting of Lexington grange Saturday evening, October 14. The public has been ex tended an invitation to attend this part of the evening's pro gram. Refreshments will be serv ed after the regular meeting. Grange members are urged to attend and bring their friends to the annual "booster night" meet ing October 21. There will be pot luck supper at 6:30, followed by a program and cards. -byMat of ueru otate of its Joutk. -diosenes M Plain Common Honesty Most Important Issue of Campaign Governor Says in Radio Talk It is time to get down to the business of the November elec tion. I intend to face facts square, ly. . . speak plainly. . . and mince no words. The Democratic candidate has has made the most important is sue of this campaign just plain common nonesty. The issue is whether it is necesary that a can didate for Governor or Oregon be honest with himself and hon est with the people of the state in what he tells them. Let me make myself perfectly clear. I do not believe that any man is justified in repudiating the convictions of a lifetime . . . the things in which he believes and for which he has stood .. . for the sake of gaining a politi cal office ... for the sake of party advantage. If the time ever comes when I have to repudiate my convictions . . . when I have to pose as a person that I am not ... for the sake of being governor of Ore gon.then I don't want to be Gov ernor of Oregon. If the time ever comes that the Republican party proposes a platform that is con trary in almost every particular to my record as a legislator and public official, the people of Ore. gon have my promise. . here and now . . that I will not accept the hyprocrisy of nomination as a spokesman and advocate of that platform. But the fact is that there are two Democratic nominees for Governor: One is candidate Flegel who tours the state appealing to the friends of education on the basis of his support of the measure to increase the basic school fund; the other is Senator Flegel who voted against this same basic school fund measure as a mem ber of the state senate. One is candidate Flegel who now gives lip service to the old age pension movement; the oth er is Senator Flegel who fought their pension bill in the legisla ture and who voted for the Rela tives' Responsibility Act. One is candidate Flegel who assumes the role and chooses the title of a "fighting liberal"; the other is private citizen Flegel who in 1948 at a Jackson Club dinner in the Portland hotel said: "I am a different kind of Demo crat than Dick Neuberger." I do not agree with his liberal views. I am a conservative democrat." The quotation is from May 12, 1950, issue of the Democratic publication, "The Democratic Voice." Is a man honest with himself who in 1948 says, "I am a con servative Democrat?" and in 1950 says, "I am a great fighting lib eral?" Do you believe that such a man will be honest with Khe people of Oregon, either in his campaign or in public adminis tration of your business? If you take a dim view of the prospect, there is plenty to con firm your doubts as to his record as a candidate for governor. Here is a man asking the high est administrative post in the state who loses no opportunity to libel and belittle the state, its government, and its people. He has described our state nospitai as a "disgrace to civilized socie ty." He asserts that the methods employed at the Oregon state pn-son are antiquated by du years. In his statement in the Vo ter s Pamphlet he taisely charges economic backwardness in our state as compared with the rest of the country. Constructive criticism is one thing. Blind condemnation of all he surveys that does not bear his particular variety of party label is something else. Publicity of this kind in speeches, on the air, and in state publications can se riously injure the reputation of state, lower civic morale, and discourage investment. It is de structive political campaigning in which personal political greed is placed above public interest. But does he speak the truth? Let's see. In his pamphlet state ment he says: "Official govern ment figures taken from a United States department of commerce bulletin shows that Oregonians earn 8 percent less than the aver age American." He doesn't cite the bulletin; he doesn't give the year or years' covered by the re port. The plain fact is that the statement is untrue as of this year . . as of last year. It is un true for any year for the last 20 years. Now here are the facts. The most recent report of the Depart ment of Commerce on the sub ject is that for August, 1950. It estimates the average individual income of the people of Oregon for the calendar year 1949 at $1448; the national average at $1330 so that the average for Oregon is nearly 9 per cent great er than that of the nation as a whole. Here are some further facts as reported by the Oregon Voter: 1. With the exception of that for 1948, the estimated average income for 1949 is the largest av erage income ever estimated for the state of Oregon. 2.This estimate is the first in more than 30 which has accorded Oregon a per capita income that was not at least 5 percent under Washington's and 12 percent un der California's. 3. The average Income of the people of Oregon has been high er than the average for the Unit ed States as a whole lor more than 20 years. 4. Between 1940 and 1948 the average income of Ofregonians increased by the astounding fi gure of 237 percent yes, 237 per cent a percentage increase ex ceeding that of either California or Washington. Knowing the facts, I do not agree with Mr. Flegel. I do not agree with Mr. Flegel at all. I believe that the state of Ore. gon is alert, aggressive . . that its people . . and I certainly in clude the people who have corfie to Oregon in recent years . . are the finest people on earth. They are today united as never before in the history of the state in a determined purpose to achieve a rounded state development at an ever increasing tempo. Certainly our situation is far from perfect But the job is being done . . ag gressively . . enthusiastically . . and above all honestly. For two years now I have traveled thru every part of this state, talking with people in all walks of life, getting down to brass tacks on their needs and their problems. And I tell you , . I have found an inspiring faith in Oregon . . its future . .and an eager willing ness to cooperate in the program we undertook two years ago. Is Mr. Flegel right? For the answer just look around the state. In the past 20 months we have done more in modernization of our state institutions than in any comparable period of Oregon his tory. At the state hospital in Sa lem there is a new million and a half dollar treatment hospital; there is a new 782 thousand dol lar ward building. Provision has been made for a tuberculosis treatment unit. All these are part of a 4 million dollar program to modernize facilities at this hos pital. At the Eastern Oregon state hospital there is a hew million dollar treatment hospital com pleted last year, a new refriger ation plant, a new shop building. They are just part of a million and a half dollar program at this institution. At the state prison we're work ing on a million dollar new cell block. One has already been completed at a cost of a half mil lion dollars. It is a part of a pro. gram involving, a million 672 thousand dollars. .Let's add some more to Mr. Flegel's education on what is happening at Oregon state insti tutions. Perhaps he doesn't know about the new hospital at Ore gon Fairview home which is a part of the half million dollar there. Perhaps he hasn't taken the trouble to find out about the third of a million being spent at the Eastern Oregon tuberculosis hospital, or the more than three- quarters of a million dollars to improve facilities at the Hill crest school for girls . . or the three hundred thousand dollar program at the state school for deaf . . or the new 360 thousand dollar building at the state school for the blind. He should find out that our plans for the Hillcrest school, for the boys school at Woodburn, and for the state prison will probably earn federal ratings placing them among the very best in the na tion by 1954. And I suggest that Mr. Fegel do find out before he undertakes further slander of this state and what it is doing. We have undertaken a compre hensive program of highway de velopment on a scale never be fore attempted in the state. Re jecting the idea of the deficit spending advocates, we . are building our highways on a pay-as-you-go basis. For years, the friends of con servation have UTged the coordi nation of the competing state ag encies concerned with resource conservation and development. Now we have done something more than Just talk about it. For the first time, all state agencies concerned have been brought in to voluntary cooperation through regular joint conferences. When we have worked out the many difficult problems involved . . when we are sure that the work of no agency will suffer by uni fication . . we wil take the next step of achieving co-ordination by legislative action. For many years, the people of Oregon have recognized the im perative necessity of halting stream pollution by cities and industries. There has now been action on this program, too. stream pollution is being elimi nated. We are now working on a time table that assures comple tion of our program in 1953. And we are. doing the job co-opera tively without loss of a slnele In dustry a possibility that many people feared. For the first time in Oregon legislative mstory, labor and in McKay Supporters Organize to Rally Big Majority Here Strong Sentiment For Incumbent Prevails Locally Realizing the necessity for ac tion if their candidate is to be successful at the November 7 el ection, Republicans of the coun ty met Wednesday evening to form a "McKay for Governor" club. The meeting was in the form of a dinner at the Elkhorn restaurant and was attended by 21 members who manifested a keen interest not only in the re election of Governor McKay but in the ticket as a whole. Loval R. Parker was chosen as general chairman of tne newiy formed eroup. J. O. Turner will act as secretary, and community directors include Mrs. Elsie Beach, Lexington; Henry Peter son, lone; Russell Miller, Board- man and A. C. Houghton, Irrigon. Judge Garnet Barratt asked permission to read Governor Mc Kay's radio address delivered over KEX Friday evening. Fol lowing the reading, several talks were heard on the political situ ation, particularly in relation to the merits of the gubernatorial condidates. Judge Barratt said he had known the governor since 1934, at which time the two of them were serving in the state senate. Impressions gained of Mr. McKay at that time were high ly favorable and his regard for him had increased throughout the years, the judge said. J. O. Turner said he had been an admirer of Mr. McKay since his college days when it was his privilege to nominate the now governor of Oregon for the then important post of student body president at Oregon Agricultural college. Henry ePterson com mented on Mr. McKays fine re cord as a legislator and as gov ernor and urged his hearers to work for "Doug" not only at nome but anywhere in Oregon they might be. Attention was called to the matter -of 'electing a supreme court justice for the sixth posi tion. Harold J. Warner, appointee of Governor McKay to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Bailey, is a candidate for the post but could not get on the ballot. A write-in campaign is being conducted in his behalf. The McKay boosters will hold another meeting before election, choosing October 30 as the date and the Legion hall in lone as the place. An effort will be made to secure a speaker. leadership that believes that its most important responsibility is to achieve working coooperation among people in all walks of life and in every branch of govern ment, from the top to the bottom. I am not the kind of Governor who is content to sit in a swivel chair at Salem. A conference ta ble in a community affected by a problem may get fewer head lines than a blustering press re lease from the capltol; but the conference table gets more re sults. dustry joined in the 1949 session in a cooperative legislative pro eram. When it was latpr riisrvw. ered that a seasonality clause of tne i4 act would not carry out the intent of this provision, labor and industrial leaders alike were prompt in pledging an amend ment at th 1951 spectrin Thp at. tempt of certain politicians to make political hay of the season ality clause aiea in Dirtn. New schedules adopted under the Unemployment Compensa. tion act added four anrl a half million dollars to unemployment compensation cnecks last year. An industrial safety program that earned the active participa tion of both management and la. bor helDed to makp nnssthln a rp cord increase in accident bene- nts paid injured workmen and at the same time a million riniinr cut in required employer contri butions to the State Industrial Accident Commission fund. In Public wplfarp a sinnprp rip. termination to carry out the will ui uie peopie ior a minimum old age assistance payment of $50 a month has increased monthly payments from $43.86 in June, i4a, to $ad.t)9 in June of 1950 . . . has raised Oreeon from 14th to 9th Place in the nation in thp siyp of payments. Ihese are but a few of the things Oregon is arr-nmnlishincr They do not scratch the surface oi wnat is Deing done In state ad ministration, unnappuy, there is not time to PO Into what is hpincr done by counties and cities and industry. But they are typical of what can be done when there is Again, I am inviting sincere people...seriously concerned about Oregon ana us iuture .. to Join with me in the campaign and in the four vears ahparl. I know th job ahead is tough ... but with vour help THE JOB WH.I. RE IDONE!